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A number of RAs and one post-doc position are available in NUEESS lab for Fall 2016 onward. One project favors software background, including strong programming skills and system knowledge of compilers and operating systems. The other favors hardware background, including computer architecture, GPUs, and parallel computing. If interested, please send an email to yfei@ece.neu.edu with your resume/transcript/activities.

05.04.2017:

Two lab members have graduated and attended the graduation ceremonies and commencements of 2017. Congratulations to Dr. Yu Han and Dr. Liwei Zhang!

02.14.2017:

Our paper, "A Novel Side-channel Timing Attack on GPUs," has been accepted for publication in Great Lake Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI)'17. Congratulations, Zhen!

11.11.2016:

Two papers have been accepted as long paper for Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) 2017. The papers are entitled: "Side-channel power analysis of XTS-AES" and "Algebraic fault analysis of SHA-3." Congratulations, Chao and Pei!

08.20.2016:

An NSF/SRC STARSS grant is awarded for project "Side-channel analysis and resiliency targeting accelerators". It is a project supported by both NSF and SRC, led by Profs. David Kaeli and Yunsi Fei.

06.01.2016:

An NSF SaTC Medium grant is awarded to support our project "Automating countermeasures and security evaluation against software side-channel attacks". It is a 3-year collaborative project led by Prof. Yunsi Fei, Adam Ding (Math), and Thomas Wahl (CCIS) of NEU.

06.01.2016:

Our paper, "Differential fault analysis of SHA3-224 and SHA3-256", has been accepted for publication in Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography (FDTC)'16 which is colocated with CHES 2016. It is the first DFA on SHA3 with byte-level fault models. Congratulations, Pei!

03.14.2016:

Our paper, "A Stochastic MAC Protocol with Randomized Power Control for Underwater Sensor Networks", has been accepted for publication in IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON)'16. Congratulations, Yu!

02.12.2016:

Our paper, "Concurrent Error Detection for Reliable SHA-3 Design", has been accepted for publication in Great Lake Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI)'16. Congratulations, Pei!

11.09.2015:

Our paper, "A complete key recovery timing attack on a GPU," has been accepted for publication in International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)'16. This is the first of its kind of work for GPU timing attack. Congratulations to Zhen for the wonderful first year PhD study!

10.05.2015:

Our paper, "TARS: A traffic-adaptive receiver-synchronized MAC protocol for underwater sensor networks," has won the Best Paper Award of IEEE Int. Symp. on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS)'15. Big applause to Yu!

08.14.2015:

Our paper, "A Unified Metric for Quantifying Information Leakage of Cryptographic Devices under Power Analysis Attacks," is accepted for publication in Int. Conf. on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security (AsiaCrypt). Congratulations, Liwei!

08.11.2015:

Bingnan Jiang has successfully defended his dissertation, Optimization and Management of Cyber-physical Systems - Smart Grid and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles. He has started working with Norfolk Southern as an Operations Research Analyst. Congratulations, Dr. Jiang!

07.31.2015:

Our paper, "Side-Channel Power Analysis of a GPU AES Implementation," is accepted for publication in Int. Conf. Computer Design (ICCD'15). This is the first of a kind work on power analysis attack on GPUs. Congratulations, Chao!

07.28.2015:

Our journal paper, "A Statistics-based Success Rate Model for DPA and CPA," is accepted for publication in Journal of Cryptographic Engineering. This is a collaborative work between ECE and Mathematics faculty and students.

Our paper, "Balance Power Leakage to Fight Against Side-Channel Analysis at Gate Level in FPGAs", is accepted as a poster in Int. Conf. on Application-specific Systems, Architectures, and Processors (ASAP'15) . Congratulations, Xin!

04.24.2015:

Our paper, "Side-Channel Analysis of MAC-Keccak Hardware Implementations", is accepted for publication in ACM Int. Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HSAP) to be co-located with ISCA 2015. Congratulations, Pei!

04.2015:

Prof. Fei was elected Faculty Fellow of College of Engineering of 2015. According to Dean Aubry, "recipients of these fellowships will have demonstrated both outstanding achievement and the potential for leadership in their respective departments, COE and Northeastern, and in their discipline. "

Two papers, "Power analysis attack on hardware implementation of MAC-Keccak on FPGAs" and "Side-channel power leakage analysis of different protection schemes on AES", have been accepted for publication in Proc. Int. Conf. on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConfig'14). Congratulations, Pei!

Our paper, "HiTS: A high-throughput memory scheduling scheme to mitigate denial-of-service attacks in multicore systems", has been accepted for publication in Int. Symp. on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD) 2014 to be held in Paris. Congratulations, Mansour!

05.25.2014:

Our paper, "A Statistical Model for Higher Order DPA on Masked Devices", has been accepted for publication in the prestigous conference of International Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) 2014 to be held in Korea. This is another collaborative work with Prof. Ding in NU Math department.

04.23.2014:

Our paper, "Scalable and Efficient Implementation of Correlation Power Analysis using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)", has been accepted for publication in the 2014 Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HASP) to be col-located with ISCA. Congratulations Neel and Tushar!

Two Openings have been filled:

2-3 RA or PostDoc openings on hardware security analysis and systems. Research and development topics include side-channel attack analysis and countermeasures, hardware Trojans, PUFs, smart card and embedded system security. Prospective students are preferred to have background on computer hardware, including but not limited to Computer Architecture, embedded systems, and VLSI design, and also have some knowledge of algorithms. Programming skills, FPGA board development experience, and familiarity with EDA tools would be a plus. Interested people please contact yfei@ece.neu.edu with resume.

04.01.2014:

Our paper, "On-road PHEV power management with hierarchical strategies in vehicular networks", has been accepted for publication in the 2014 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV'14) to be held in Michigan in June 2014. Congratulations Bingnan!

Prof. Fei has been the technical co-chair for EWEEK/WESS - Workshop on Embedded System Security hold in conjunction with Embedded System Week in Canada. http://www.wess-workshop.org/

09.20.2013:

We have received an NSF award, "MRI: Development of a Testbed for Side Channel Analysis and Security Evaluation (TeSCASE)." It is a collaborative project under Prof. Fei (PI), Prof. David Kaeli and Prof. Miriam Leeser, all in NU ECE department. A dedicated project website will be up soon. Please stay tuned.

07.26.2013:

Juan Carlos has successfully defended his dissertation, "Architectural Support for Software Security." This is a project supported by NSF CAREER award. Juan Carlos will return to Colombia to be an associate professor. Congratulations Dr. Martinez Santos and best wishes for your academic career!

07.01.2013:

Our paper, "An adaptive routing protocol based on connectivity prediction for underwater disruption tolerant networks,” has been accepted by IEEE Global Communications Conf. (GlobeCom), to be held in Dec. 2013. Congratulations Tiansi!

07.01.2013:

Our paper, "DSH-MAC: Medium Access Control Based on Decoupled and Suppressed Handshaking for Long-delay Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks," has been accepted by IEEE Conf. on Local Computer Networks (LCN) 2013 to be held in Sydney, Australia in Oct. Congratulations Tiansi!

06.17.2013:

We just received an NSF award, "TWC: Medium: Collaborative: A Unified Statistics-Based Framework for Side-Channel Attack Analysis and Security Evaluation of Cryptosystems." It is a collaborative project under Prof. Fei (PI), Prof. A. Adam Ding of NU Department of Mathematics, and Prof. Thomas Eisenbarth of WPI ECE. NU is the leading institute.

05.15.2013:

Our paper, "Micro-architectural support for metadata coherence in multi-core dynamic information flow tracking," has been accepted for presentation at the Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HASP) in conjunction with ISCA 2013 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Juan Carlos is going to present it.

Our paper, "A statistical model for DPA with novel algorithmic confusion analysis," has been accepted by CHES (Int. Wksp on cryptographic hardware and embedded systems) 2012 to be held in Belgium, Sept. 2012. This is a collaborative work between our lab and NU Department of Mathematics!

03.19.2012:

Our paper "MURAO: A multi-level routing protocol for acoustic-optical hybrid underwater wireless sensor networks" has been accepted to appear in SECON (IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks) to be held in Seoul, Korea, June 2012. Congratulations! Tiansi.